[jyl]

I'm trying not to switch because have been happy w/ Comcast service (any time we have a problem, they fix it remotely immediately or have a truck at our house w/in a day) and performance (15Mbps down). Also, w/out FiOS is our area, my alternatives to Comcast are limited.

Just trying to get the bill back down to my comfort level - realized that between Comcast (phone, cable, broadband), Earthlink (email accounts), Netflix (movies), and AT&T Wireless (two iPhones) we are paying close to $300/mo for communications/entertainment, net of work reimbursement for part of the wireless bill. $3600/yr is too much.

Thinking about dropping Netflix too. Either that or buy a Mac Mini/2TB external drive and start ripping the DVDs to build a video library. As it stands we don't get enough value from it and one of the download services (Amazon, AppleTV, etc) would work just as well.

Could drop Earthlink too. I've had that email address since 1995-ish, hate to give it up, but could bite the bullet and move to a Gmail account.